Poets & Writers Theater

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...” Neil Gaiman performs a candlelit reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” for fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss’s literary nonprofit organization, Worldbuilders.

In this interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven," the film is set in December 1959 where a young writer has locked himself in a hotel room and an 8mm projector screens images of his lost love Lenore. Directed by Don Thiel and Chris Saphire, the film won Best Short at the 2011 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival, judged by Guillermo del Toro.

John Cusack plays Edgar Allan Poe in James McTeigue's fictionalized account of the author's pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in his stories. The movie is slated for release next March.